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Ibn 'Idhari

Late 13th/early 14th century Maghrebi writer and historian

Field	Value
name	Ibn 'Idhari
birth_date	Late 13th century
birth_place	Marrakesh, present-day Morocco
death_date	After 1312 CE
occupation	Historian, Qāʾid (commander)
notable_works	Al-Bayan al-Mughrib
era	Medieval Islamic period
main_interests	History of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus

Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʽIḏārī al-Marrākushī () was a Maghrebi historian of the late-13th/early-14th century, and author of the famous Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, an important medieval history of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus (now the Iberian Peninsula) written in 1312.

Ibn Idhāri was born and lived in Marrakesh (present-day Morocco), and was a qāʾid ('commander') of Fez. Little is known of his life. His only surviving work, Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, is a history of North Africa from the conquest of Miṣr in 640/1 AD to the Almohad conquests in 1205/6 AD. Its value to modern scholarship lies in its extracts from older works, now lost, and in its material not found elsewhere, including reports of the first Viking raids on Al-Andalus in the ninth century. He mentions another biographic work on the caliphs, imāms and amīrs from across the Islamic world, which has not survived. He died after 1312 / 712 AH.

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References

Ahmed Siraj: L'Image de la Tingitane. L'historiographie arabe médiévale et l'Antiquité nord-africaine. École Française de Rome, 1995. . Short biographical note.
N. Levtzion & J.F.P. Hopkins, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, Cambridge University Press, 1981, (reprint: Markus Wiener, Princeton, 2000, ). Short biographical note and English translation of extracts from Al-Bayan al-Mughrib.

References

Ibn Athari, Abu al-Abbas. (2013). "Kitāb al-bayān al-mughrib fī akhbār al-Andalus wa-al-Maghrib". Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī.
This is the form of the name given by [[Reinhart Dozy. Dozy]], Colin and Levi-Provençal, editors of the Arabic text of the ''Bayān'', but Siraj (work cited below) gives his [[Arabic name#Kunya. kunya]] and [[Arabic name#Ism. ism]] as ''Abū Abd Allah Muhammad''
Bosch-Vilá, J. (1979). "Ibn 'Idhari". E. J. Brill.
(2015). "Vikings in the South". Bloomsbury.

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